O'Donnell rails about tax invasion

Former senate candidate Christine O’Donnell on Friday demanded answers as to why her personal tax records may have been improperly accessed and misused by government officials.

Appearing on Fox & Friends on Friday, O’Donnell said she had been told by the IRS inspector general that her case was closed.

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“I am completely dumbfounded as to why the criminal investigators have not only closed my case but why Eric Holder says there is no reason to look any further,” O’Donnell said.

O’Donnell Delawareonline on Thursday that she was notified by federal investigators that her records were accessed on the day she announced her Senate candidacy in 2010. That same day, the IRS filed an erroneous tax lien on a home she no longer owned, she said.

Asked by Fox whether she believed the incident had defamed her, she said “absolutely.”

“Even though we had the evidence… a copy of that erroneous tax lien was still reported, still held up in front of cameras, used against me from my opponents on both sides of the aisle,” O’Donnell said.

She also expressed gratitude toward Sen. Chuck Grassley for investigating her case.

Investigators for Grassley said the problem probably came from a back door system allowing state officials to see federal tax records, the Washington Times reported.

“There are so many unanswered questions,” O’Donnell said. “If someone is abusing their power at the IRS and inappropriately accessing the records, the private personal records of political candidates and then using it to damage them, we need answers.”